Word: poseidons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aims to stay ahead. Last week the House of Representatives voted $300 million for the coming year's costs of developing the Poseidon (or C3) missile, which the Defense Department envisions as Polaris' successor on the Navy's missile-carrying subs. Three feet longer than the 31-ft. Polaris, carrying almost twice its 1.5-megaton payload, the Poseidon is expected to be operational in the 1970s...
...future on defense and space work. The move was well timed. The company was already deeply involved with the Navy's Polaris missile, which has accounted for more than $2 billion-a fifth-of the company's revenue over the past decade. Polaris' successor, the Poseidon, will probably bring Lockheed and its subcontractors another $2 billion...
...valuable part of the nation's nuclear delivery force), the decision has been to discontinue further development of manned bombers, such as the controversial RS-70. Instead, enormous amounts of money are being spent to beef up the Minuteman batteries and nuclear submarine-launched missiles, among them Poseidon, which will double the megatonnage of Polaris. In Omaha, the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff coordinates the targets at which missiles, landlocked and at sea, are aimed. Mostly they are pointed at critical bull's-eyes in Red China and Russia...
There was nothing very new in all this. Most of the new-sounding weapons or projects cited in the message actually have been in the research and planning stage for some time and are now gradually nearing production. They include: 1) the Poseidon missile, a new name for the Polaris B-3, which will be more accurate than the present Polaris and will double its firepower to about two megatons; 2) an air-launched short-range attack missile (SRAM) with a 150-mile capability, which plugs the gap between the ten-mile Bull...
...love. The goddess puts a sex hex on Phaedra, who is consumed with a ravenous passion for her stepson Hippolytus. She is rebuffed in her advances, and in revenge tells Theseus that the boy has made attempts on her virtue. Theseus prays to his father, the sea god Poseidon, to destroy Hippolytus, meanwhile banishing his son from Troezen. As Hippolytus drives along the seashore, Poseidon sends a sea monster to scare his horses. Flung from his chariot, Hippolytus is entangled in the reins and cruelly dragged and mangled to death...